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News & Events

Press Release, Rice Producers of California
March 2, 2005
California rice farmers are realizing record demand for their 2004 crop. Export numbers released this week from the US Department of Agriculture show that export demand for medium...

International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)
March 2005
After extensive field and pre-commercial trials in the past few years, China is expected to seek approval for the commercial production of it...

Reuters, Singapore
The Nation, February 28, 2005
China will need to import large volumes of rice for a second year in a row in 2005 due to buoyant demand, but the purchases may be at least a third smaller than last year, a senior T...

Dahli Aspillera
Malaya, The National Newspaper, February 28, 2005
AMERICANS throw rice at brides, process rice into certain kinds of beer, and consume mushy quantities of it in soups, the book Merchants of Grain tells us. But most ...

Business Day, February 25, 2005
Vietnam, the world's second largest shipper of rice, is likely to corner a big share of the 500,000 tonnes of rice being sought by the Philippines' next week, traders said on Thursday.
They said Vietna...

C. Marquez, Jr.
Today, January 27, 2005
More countries in Asia are shifting to hybrid-rice cultivation as scientists continue to introduce new varieties to meet the growing demand for food security parallel to the even-increasing population in...

Rudy Fernandez
The Philippine Star, January 6, 2005
From an output of 599 million tons in 2000, global rice production went down to 569 million tons in 2002 owing mainly to a reduction in the rice harvested area, Dr. He Changchui, assist...

By He Sheng
China Daily, July 19, 2004
Chinese scientists are calling for stricter regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMO) in China, saying the spread of the GMOs has become so rapid that the government must work out effectiv...

By Armand M. Galang
Manila Times, July 18, 2004
CABANATUAN CITY—Executives of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Central Luzon on Friday led surprise visits to hundreds of its accredited stores and Bigasan ni Gloria sa Palengke all ove...

Ernie B.Esconde
Manila Times, July 14, 2004
DESPITE the billions of pesos allocated by the govern­ment’s agriculture modernization program, the lack of an adequate irrigation system is still a problem for many farmers in Bataan and, ...

China Daily, July 13, 2004
China hopes agronomists from the World Food Prize Foundation will offer more suggestions to China for its agricultural development, said a leading official Tuesday in Beijing.
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu...

Vietnam News, July 13, 2004
Workers of Cuu Long Delta Rice Institute examine hybrid-rice at a nursery. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Do
HA NOI — A pilot rice-growing programme that adheres to what is known as the "three reductions, t...